ECON 999: Doctoral Dissertation Research

ECON 999-0: Doc Dissertation Resrch
(Spring 2015)

Section Information for Spring 2015

Dissertation Research credit (ECON 999) is taken by students who have advanced to candidacy. Students working on dissertation research (999) must register for a minimum of 3 credits of 999 per semester (excluding summers) until they have completed the minimum number of credits of 998 and 999 required by the university and the PhD ECON program. Then, they must register for 1 credit of 999 until the dissertation is complete and has been officially submitted to the library. Course registration numbers (CRNs) change every semester, so dissertation research students must request a new code each semester.

CRNs for ECON 999 are controlled by the college's Graduate Academic Affairs Office, but must berequested through the Economics Graduate Studies Office. The CHSS Graduate Academic Affairs Office will ignore any requests that are not processed through the Department of Economics.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT YOUR REQUEST FOR ECON 999 SPRING 2015 - December 17, 2014 

Instructions for Requesting CRNs

  1. You must use your Mason email account to request this code. No replies will be made to non-Mason email accounts.

  2. To request a code, you must email econdiss@gmu.edu with the following information:

  • full name
  • G#
  • discipline (Economics)
  • dissertation advisor
  • number of credit hours requested
  • copy of email approval from your dissertation advisor (for initial and for continuous enrollment requests)

 Any requests that do not meet the above requirements will not be acknowledged.

ECON 999 Students must email department at econdiss@gmu.edu for permission and CRN to register via Patriot Web.

Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 1-15

Research on approved dissertation topic under direction of dissertation committee. Notes: 24 credits may be applied to doctoral degree requirement. May be repeated within the degree.
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.

Schedule Type: Dissertation
Grading:
This course is graded on the Satisfactory/No Credit scale.

The University Catalog is the authoritative source for information on courses. The Schedule of Classes is the authoritative source for information on classes scheduled for this semester. See the Schedule for the most up-to-date information and see Patriot web to register for classes.